Kerrigan HQ Opening

As always, I will post pretty much any campaign announcements I receive, without regard to my personal preferences. Just email them to me.

From the Kerrigan campaign:

OUR CAMPAIGN OFFICE IS NOW OPEN!

The Kerrigan for Supervisor campaign will open its new office headquarters to the public for a Grand Opening Party this Friday(March 28th) at 6:00 PM!

This will be an opportunity for supporters to hear from the Kerrigan for Supervisor campaign, and learn about volunteer opportunities. Chris will be there to speak with guests about how we can move Humboldt County forward together!

Don’t miss this great opportunity to meet Chris and your fellow supporters! Refreshments will be provided.

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If Chris wants to run to encourage discussion and bring issues that he cares about to the forefront I think that’s all well and good but lets not delude ourselves into actually believing that he has even a remote chance at winning. I think it would be much more effecting to have him issue well thought out position papers and challenge debates on substantive policies rather than holding fundraisers and sucking resources from an already tapped community. I think Chris could make a difference but not by running a quixotic and wasted campaign which seems to be the direction he’s headed at this point..

Not taking sides in that discussion because maybe you’re more aware of particulars than I, but you have to fund raise for any campaign, “Quixotic” or not.

I would add that no campaign is decided until election night. Do you think it’s coincidence that the majority of the Board of Supervisors changed direction with regard to the GPU after opposition candidates signed up in the 4th and 5th Districts? I agree that incumbents generally only lose if the electorate is upset with them. I think the GPU process was starting to tilt very extreme to the right, and Virginia and Ryan, both professed moderates, seem willing to get that under control. Would they have been so willing without election challenges? We’ll never know.

But that money difference – that’s going to be hard to overcome. And Ryan has some big name political endorsements which may be hard for Sharon Latour to overcome.

“I think it would be much more effecting to have him issue well thought out position papers and challenge debates on substantive policies”.

What “debates”?

The LWV started calling them “forums” on KEET years ago…and they remain pointless and uninformative, especially considering how the local press fails to inform the public on the issues that need debate. For a brief time the Times standard offered an editorial debate between David Cobb and Leo Sears, it almost made the TS worth a subscription.

Chris Kerrigan is taking advantage of a unique moment when cities across the U.S. are passing minimum wage increases.

Eureka’s Fair Wage Initiative has already registered more voters than the County Democratic Central Committee has in years and they are now preparing to register many more.